HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080386250
Bassin de West Fork Bitterroot River
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 3 administrative regions : Idaho, Lemhi, Ravalli
Sub-basin area
1 445,8km²
Upstream area
1 445,8km²
Discharge
9,67m³/s
Mean elev.
1 987m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1442.3 km²99.5% of basin
- LemhiIdaho · United States5.1 km²0.4% of basin
- IdahoIdaho · United States1.8 km²0.1% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Bluejoint
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
253.53 km² overlap
Selway-Bitterroot
IUCN IbWilderness
191.66 km² overlap
Boulder Creek
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
3.86 km² overlap
Wilderness
0.60 km² overlap
Easement
0.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
958 distinct species · 5 295 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 51 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de West Fork Bitterroot River : 31 espèces reliées par 134 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 22 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
1,9°C
Annual rain
486mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
224mm/an
PET
862mm
AET
417mm
Mean slope
19,1°
Water table
990cm
Forest
84%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)